John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2017 Fellows - and Canada

 Mr. Ehab Abouheif, Professor of Biology, McGill University: Darwin’s Invisible Ink: the storage and release of ancestral developmental potential in biological systems.  Mr. Eric Agol, Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington: Dynamically interacting Earth-like exoplanets.  Dr. Robert Aronowitz, Professor and Chair, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania: Medical efficacy in a highly intervened-in world.  Mr. John Aylward, Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Clark University: Music Composition.  Mr. Kevin Baker, Writer, : The Invention of Paradise.  Mr. Edward E. Baptist, Professor of History, Cornell University: Predators and Prey: Getting Away with Being Black, from Fugitives to Ferguson.  Ms. Signe Baumane, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, New York: Film-Video.  Mr. Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, Princeton University: A Revolutionary World: The Growth and Urbanization of Global Mass Revolt.  Ms. Marina Berio, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York; Chair, General Studies in Photography Program, International Center of Photography: Photography.  Mr. B. Andrei Bernevig, Professor of Physics, Princeton University: Topological Quantum Chemistry.  Mr. Oscar Bettison, Professor of Composition, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University: Music Composition.  Mr. Dániel Péter Biró, Associate Professor of Composition and Music Theory, University of Victoria: Music Composition.  Ms. Emily Rapp Black, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside: The Wingbeats of Insects and Birds.  Mr. David Blei, Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Columbia University: Expressive Probabilistic Models: Design, Inference, and Criticism.  Ms. Michelle Boisseau, Poet, Kansas City, Missouri; Professor of English, University of Missouri, Kansas City: Poetry.  Mr. Derek Boshier, Artist, , California: Fine Arts.  Ms. Robin Broad, Professor of International Development, School of International Service, American University: When Poorer People and Their Governments Defend the Environment.  Ms. Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Chair, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley: “This Vale of Tears”: Marx's Critique of Religion.  Ms. Holly Brubach, Writer, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; President, Studio Holly Brubach, LLC: A biography of Tanaquil Le Clercq.  Ms. Kathe Burkhart, Artist, New York City: Fine Arts.  Ms. Mary F. Calvert, Photographer, Annapolis, Maryland: Photography.  Mr. Zackary Canepari, Filmmaker, Berkeley, California: Film-Video.  Mx. Cassils, Artist, Los Angeles, California: Fine Arts.

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 Mr. Mahir Cetiz, Core Lecturer of Music Humanities, Columbia University: Music Composition.  Mr. Mark A. Chancey, Professor of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University: The Good Book as Textbook: Teaching about the Bible in American Public Schools.  Ms. Victoria Chang, Poet, Rossmoor, California: Poetry.  Ms. Mahwish Chishty, Artist, Kent, Ohio; Assistant Professor, School of Art, Kent State University: Fine Arts.  Ms. Julia A. Clancy-Smith, University Regents Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona: From Household to Schoolroom: Women, Gender, and Education in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean, c. 1900-present.  Mr. Daniel W. Coburn, Photographer, Lawrence, Kansas; Assistant Professor of Photo- Media, University of Kansas: Photography.  Ms. Margaret Cohen, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, Stanford University: Spectacles of the Underwater Frontier.  Ms. Linda Colley, Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University: The Sword and the Pen: Conflict and the Making of Constitutions.  Ms. Rita Copeland, Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, and Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania: Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages.  Mr. John E. Cort, Professor of Religion, Denison University: Naked Devotion: The Devotional Culture of the Digambar Jains in Early Modern North India.  Ms. Cindy Cox, Composer, Oakland, California; Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley: Music Composition.  Mr. Michael David-Fox, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History, Georgetown University: Smolensk under Nazi and Soviet Rule.  Mr. Kevin Davies, Writer, Washington, DC: Genome Editing: The CRISPR Revolution.  Mr. Joseph DeLappe, Artist, Reno, Nevada; Professor of Games and Tactical Media, Abertay University: Fine Arts.  Mr. Matthew Delmont, Professor of History, Arizona State University: To Live Half American: African Americans at Home and Abroad During World War II.  Ms. Lesley Dill, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine Arts.  Mr. Harry Dodge, Artist, Los Angeles, California; Permanent Faculty, Program in Art, California Institute of the Arts: Fine Arts.  Mr. Jonathan H. Ebel, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Illinois: Reforming Religion: New Deal California and the Redemption of America.  Mr. Eugenio Espinoza, Artist, Gainesville, Florida: Fine Arts.  Mr. Brian Evenson, Writer, Valencia, California; Professor of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts: Handbook for a Future Revolution.  Mr. Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University: The Sociology of Expertise.

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 Ms. Susan Faludi, Writer, Brunswick, Maine: Left in the Wilderness.  Ms. Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY: Immigration and the Transformation of America.  Ms. Ashley Fure, Composer, Hanover, New Hampshire; Assistant Professor of Music, Dartmouth College: Music Composition.  Ms. Keely Garfield, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director, Keely Garfield Dance: Choreography.  Ms. Masha Gessen, Writer, New York City: How to Destroy a Democracy: 5 Lessons in Imagining the Worst (and some notes on resistance and recovery).  Mr. Bryan Gick, Professor of Linguistics, University of British Columbia: Embodying Speech.  Mr. Ken Gonzales-Day, Photographer, Los Angeles, California; Professor of Art, Scripps College: Photography.  Ms. Annie Gosfield, Composer, New York City: Music Composition.  Mr. Tom Griffiths, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, and Director, Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California, Berkeley: The Mathematics of the Mind.  Ms. Jennifer Grotz, Poet, Rochester, New York; Professor of English, University of Rochester: Poetry.  Ms. Julie Guthman, Professor of Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz: Wilted: Verticillium dahliae in the making and unmaking of California’s strawberry industry.  Mr. Alec Hall, Composer, New York City: Music Composition.  Ms. Laura Ann Harrison, Filmmaker, , Illinois: Film-Video.  Ms. Matthea Harvey, Poet, Brooklyn, New York: Poetry.  Mr. Jochen Hellbeck, Professor of History, Rutgers University: Soviet Suffering under Nazi Rule: a Forgotten History.  Mx. Keith Hennessy, Choreographer, San Francisco, California; Artistic Director, Circo Zero: Choreography.  Mr. Adam Herring, Emily Rich Summers Endowed Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University: Eyes in a Landscape: Art in the Inca Empire.  Ms. Elana Herzog, Artist, New York City: Fine Arts.  Mr. Nicholas A. Hill, Artist, Granville, Ohio; Professor of Art, Otterbein University: Fine Arts.  Ms. Shelley Hirsch, Composer, New York City: Music Composition.  Mr. Joel Hoffman, Composer, New York City: Music Composition.  Mr. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Metropolis in Ruins: Berlin in the 1940s.

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 Mr. Thomas K. Hubbard, James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Austin: Competitive Masculinity and the Sexual Outlaw in Greek Antiquity and Beyond.  Ms. Michelle Huneven, Writer, Altadena, California: Fiction.  Ms. Samantha Hunt, Writer, Tivoli, New York; Professor in the Writing Program, Pratt Institute: Fiction.  Ms. Heather Hurst, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Skidmore College: Piecing together the Past: Illustrating Ancient Maya Murals from San Bartolo, Guatemala.  Mr. Ishion Hutchinson, Poet, Ithaca, New York; Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University: Poetry.  Ms. Thilde Jensen, Photographer, Truxton, New York: Photography.  Ms. Kirsten Johnson, Filmmaker, New York City: Film-Video.  Ms. Susan D. Jones, Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, and Director, Program in History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota: Plague Homelands: Disease and Colonialism in the Eurasian Borderlands, 1880-2000.  Mr. Peter J. Kalliney, William J and Nina B Tuggle Chair in English, University of Kentucky: Bandung Generation: Literature, Decolonization, and the Aesthetic Cold War.  Mr. Byron Kim, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine Arts.  Ms. Heidi Kitrosser, Professor, University of Minnesota Law School: Dangerous Knowledge: Whistleblowers, Leakers, and the Power of Information.  Mr. Phil Klay, Writer, Forest Hills, New York: Fiction.  Ms. Carson Kreitzer, Playwright, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Drama and Performance Art.  Mr. Mike Kuchar, Filmmaker, San Francisco, California: Film-Video.  Mr. Aaron Landsman, Playwright, New York City: Drama and Performance Art.  Ms. Adriaan Lanni, Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School: Crime and Justice in Democratic Athens.  Mr. Leigh Ledare, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.  Mr. Cin-Ty Lee, Professor and Chair, Department of Earth Science, Rice University: Continental Emergence.  Ms. Jennie Jieun Lee, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine Arts.  Mr. Daniel A. Lidar, Viterbi Professor of Engineering, University of Southern California: Toward Quantum Advantages in Computation via Quantum Annealing.  Ms. Jen Liu, Filmmaker, Staten Island, New York: Film-Video.  Mr. John W. Love, Jr., Artist, Charlotte, North Carolina: Fine Arts.  Mr. James Luna, Artist, Pauma Valley, California: Fine Arts.  Mr. Michael Lundgren, Photographer, Phoenix, Arizona: Photography.  Ms. Fiona Maazel, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: Fiction.  Ms. Cynthia Madansky, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, New York: Film-Video.

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 Mr. Alexander Maksik, Writer, New York City: Fiction.  Ms. Ulrike Malmendier, Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley: The Role of Lifetime Experiences in Economic Decision-Making.  Ms. Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: The Drama of Celebrity.  Mr. Rogelio Martinez, Playwright, Stony Brook, New York: Drama and Performance Art.  Ms. Cheryl Mattingly, Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California: Category Trouble: Stigma as Moral Experience.  Mr. Davis McCombs, Poet, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Translation, University of Arkansas: Poetry.  Mr. Michael D. McNally, Chair and Professor of Religion, Carleton College: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment.  Ms. Amanda Means, Photographer, Beacon, New York: Photography.  Ms. Yvonne Meier, Choreographer, New York City: Choreography.  Ms. Shari Mendelson, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine Arts.  Mr. Antonio Méndez Esparza, Filmmaker, Tallahassee, Florida; Assistant Professor, College of Motion Picture Arts, Florida State University: Film-Video.  Mr. David Mikics, Writer, Brooklyn, New York; John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English and Honors, University of Houston: Stanley Kubrick: An American Filmmaker.  Mr. Daniel J. Mindiola, Presidential Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania: Catalytic Borylation and Silylation of Methane with Base Metals.  Ms. Cheryl Misak, Professor of Philosophy, University of : Frank Ramsey: An Intellectual Biography.  Mr. Armin P. Moczek, Professor of Biology, Indiana University: The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES): Empirical and Conceptual Challenges and Approaches.  Mr. Ander Monson, Writer, Tucson, Arizona; Director of Creative Writing and Associate Professor, University of Arizona: Predator.  Ms. Margaret Morrison, Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, University of Toronto: Explanation and Complexity in Econophysics.  Mr. Benjamin Moser, Writer, Utrecht, : On Tourism.  Mr. Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law: Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens.  Mr. Sandeep Mukherjee, Artist, Los Angeles, California; Associate Professor of Art, Pomona College: Fine Arts.  Mr. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Writer, Los Angeles, California: Aerol Arnold Chair of English, University of Southern California: Fiction.  Mr. Shaun O'Boyle, Photographer, Dalton, Massachusetts: Photography.  Mr. Paul O'Keeffe, Artist, Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Fine Arts.

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 Ms. Hee Oh, Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics, : Dynamics and Kleinian Groups.  Mr. Samuel Otter, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley: Melville's Forms.  Mr. Aydogan Ozcan, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering , University of California, Los Angeles: Extreme-throughput Virus Tracking, Characterization, and Manipulation.  Mr. Gregory Pardlo, Poet, Brooklyn, New York; Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University: Poetry.  Ms. Bissera V. Pentcheva, Professor of Art History, Stanford University: Animation in Medieval Art.  Ms. Adela Pinch, Professor of English, : Victorian Fiction and the Location of Experience.  Mr. Jefferson Pinder, Artist, Chicago, Illinois; Professor, Department of Sculpture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Fine Arts.  Mr. Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University: The Rotwelsch Inheritance: Biography of a Secret Language.  Ms. Claudia Rankine, Poet, New York City; Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry, Yale University: Poetry.  Mr. Ron Rash, Writer, Clemson, South Carolina; Parris Professor of Applachian Studies, Western Carolina University: Fiction.  Mr. Will Rawls, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York: Choreography.  Mr. Rodrigo Reyes, Filmmaker, Merced, California: Film-Video.  Mr. Hunter Reynolds, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine Arts.  Mr. Daniel K. Richter, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania: The Lords Proprietors: Land and Power in Seventeenth-Century America.  Ms. Melinda Ring, Choreographer, New York City: Choreography.  Ms. A.V. Rockwell, Filmmaker, Jamaica, New York: Film-Video.  Mr. Jesse Rodin, Associate Professor of Music, Stanford University: Giving Form to Fifteenth-Century Music.  Mr. Patrick Rosal, Poet, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University, Camden: Poetry.  Ms. Kay Rosen, Artist, Gary, Indiana: Fine Arts.  Mr. Tim Roughgarden, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University: Complexity- Theoretic Barriers in Economics.  Mr. Paul Rucker, Artist, Seattle, Washington: Fine Arts.  Ms. Deborah Rudacille, Professor of the Practice, Department of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: The Family Disease: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Inheritance.

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 Ms. Cynthia Saltzman, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: Plunder: Napoleon and Veronese's Feast.  Ms. Zina Saro-Wiwa, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine Arts.  Mr. Richmond Sarpong, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley: Chemical Synthesis Using Carvone.  Mr. Mark Schoenfield, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University: The Palimpsest of Justice: Legal Trials and Romantic Print Culture, 1770–1835.  Mr. Brian Seibert, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: Cuban Dance Reunites with Its Northern Cousins.  Ms. Shalini Shankar, Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University: The Real Generation Z: Immigrant Impact on a Major Generational Cohort.  Ms. Marisa Silver, Writer, Los Angeles, California: Fiction.  Ms. Jeanne Silverthorne, Artist, New York City: Fine Arts.  Ms. Sara Skrabalak, James H. Rudy Associate Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University: In Situ Monitoring of Interface-Controlled Phase Transformations in Nanomaterials.  Mr. J.P. Sniadecki, Filmmaker, Evanston, Illinois; Assistant Professor of Radio, TV, and Film, Northwestern University: Film-Video.  Mr. Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University: Brotherlands: A Family History of the East European Nations.  Mr. Paolo Squatriti, Professor of History and Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan: Pleasing Plants and Worrisome Weeds: Botanical Change in Early Medieval Europe.  Ms. Gigliola Staffilani, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Regularity Structure and Dispersive PDE.  Mr. Christopher Stark, Composer, St. Louis, Missouri; Assistant Professor of Music Composition, Washington University in St. Louis: Music Composition.  Ms. Maggie Steber, Photographer, Miami, Florida: Photography.  Ms. Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Brown University: Grounds for Reclamation.  Ms. Zoe Strauss, Photographer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Photography.  Mr. Michael Strevens, Professor of Philosophy, New York University: Understanding, Grasp, and Humanistic Thought.  Mr. Steven Subotnick, Filmmaker, Providence, Rhode Island: Film-Video.  Mr. David Tavárez, Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College: Word, Time, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico: The Zapotec Books of the Cosmos.  Mr. Brad Temkin, Photographer, Skokie, Illinois: Photography.  Mr. Hans Thomalla, Composer, Evanston, Illinois; Associate Professor of Music Composition, Northwestern University: Music Composition.  Mr. Roy Thurston, Artist, Los Angeles, California: Fine Arts.

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 Ms. Carmelita Tropicana, Playwright, New York City: Drama and Performance Art.  Ms. Pramila Vasudevan, Choreographer, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Choreography.  Ms. Sarah Wagner, Associate Professor of Anthropology, George Washington University: Bringing Them Home: The Identification and Commemoration of Vietnam War MIAs.  Ms. Natasha Warikoo, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University: Asian Americans in Suburban America: Academic Competition, Youth Culture, and Racial Change.  Mr. Michael Waters, Poet, Ocean, New Jersey; Professor of English, Monmouth University: Poetry.  Mr. Jeff "Tain" Watts, Composer, Easton, Pennsylvania: Music Composition.  Ms. Leslie Wayne, Artist, New York City: Fine Arts.  Mr. Afaa M. Weaver, Poet, West Cornwall, Connecticut; Alumnae Professor of English, Simmons College: Poetry.  Ms. Marianne Weems, Playwright, New York City: Drama and Performance Art.  Ms. Stacy Wolf, Professor of Theater, Director of the Program in Music Theater, and Director of the Princeton Arts Fellows, Princeton University: Beyond Broadway: Amateur Musical Theatre in the U.S..  Mr. Billy Woodberry, Filmmaker, Los Angeles, California; Faculty Member, School of Art and School of FIlm, California Institute of the Arts: Film-Video.  Ms. Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D., Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University: Global Germ Cell Metallome.  Mr. Andrew Zimmerman, Professor of History, George Washington University: Conjuring Freedom.

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